Clare Edwards
Senior Research Nurse
RM BSc
Clare joined the Critical Care Research Group in May 2023 as the co-lead Senior Research Nurse.
After training and qualifying as a Midwife in 2009, she started her career in nursing and midwifery research in 2015 working in the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health looking at developing gestation-specific vital sign reference ranges in pregnancy.
In 2019, she moved to the National Perinatal and Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, to work as the Trial Manager on a large multi-centre randomised control trial; Baby-OSCAR: a study to find out whether or not a confirmed large Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) in very premature babies should be treated with ibuprofen within 72 hours of birth. She later went on to work as the Research Nurse on DOLFIN: Developmental Outcomes of Long-term Feed Supplementation in Neonates trial before taking up this current role as the Senior Research Nurse within the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics.